I have a Goth import collection called Kiss of the Vampyre and it has some winning groups on it:
Alien Sex fiend Suspiria Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Damned Specimen Creaming Jesus Midnight Configuration Lords of the New Church Flesh for Lulu Scarehead Echo and the Bunnymen Bomb Party Lucyfix Die Lady Di Screaming Dead Christian Death Gaye Bykers on Acid (my favorite verse...... sheep thief sheep thief you're a fucking sheep thief) |
The Circle Jerks
Bad Acid Trip Bear Vs. Shark Leftover Crack |
Bad Yeggs
Bump of Chicken Ripslyme (All Japanese bands) |
best one: fuck.... i'm dead.
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I never really found any band name weird except for one that always stuck in my mind: The Butthole Surfers!
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i know this is an older thread, but i couldn't resist.
cystic dysentery (ow!) nailshitter (OW!) suffocate faster from a second story window if scars could speak big in georgia (you've got to be kidding me!) fear before the march of flames kiss army and hollyweird gutterboy spicoli odoyle rules wounds from a friend mystic dino and the 420 band my all time favorite? rabid pussy. welcome to florida, y'all. kick back and we'll duel you some banjos. |
Hootie and the Blowfish
Thunder Cock |
goodspeed you black emperor
butthole surfers huskur du jaga jazzist oysterhead |
i always liked
ebn-ozn geggy tah ODW (our daughters wedding) OMD (orchestral maneuveres in the dark) |
Neutral Milk Hotel
Most indie bands have kind of odd names. Modest Mouse is a prominent indie band (ironically now unpopular with the indie crowd because they went 'mainstream') that's relatively tame compared to a lot of what's out there. I think it has to do with the thoery of indie relativity. In Indie circles the more obscure a band is, the better it is. A strange name protects the band's obscurity. There are those out there searching for the perfect indie band, the one band that has achieved perfection by not being known to anyone. The problem is that it's a quest doomed to failure because as soon as the questor finds the band they're no longer completely unheard of and instantly fall from grace. |
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Was (not Was) A-Ha! Lipps, Inc! Air Supply M Pure Prarie League Climax Blues Band Haircut 100 Men Without Hats 'Til Tuesday Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark (OMD) Scritti Politti Bananarama Wang Chung T'Pau Johnny Hates Jazz Milli Vanilli Fine Young Cannibals Iron Butterfly Strawberry Alarm Clock All of those names came from my own personal collection by the way. |
Damnit, you beat me to 'em.
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I'll also add Strapping Young Lad, which isn't too strange on its own, but when attatched to a death metal band, seems a bit out of place. ...and: God What an Aweful Racket (GWAR... it's just funnier to me when spelled out in full) |
The Number Twelve Looks Like You
Percy Hill Phi-life Cypher the polyphonic spree The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower |
I was going to name my band "Starving Jack-Rabbit Stampede".... its a long story.
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Blue Öyster Cult is far to cool to be funny, but I'll surely grant you peculiar.
Seconding Porcupine Tree, Flaming Lips, and Anal Cunt. Also They Might Be Giants (Comes from a George C. Scott film) and Archers of Loaf. Jethro Tull was the name of a fellow in 16th (?) century England who invented an improved steel seed drill. May favorites have been local though: Fattie Deluxe and the Jolly Llamas The Tao Jonez Combustibles Aavant Gaardvark Döktör Göatlöad (fratenity brother's short lived metal band. Dead of a surfiet of umlauts) and a med school band I heard of: Rod Bacillus and the Streptones. |
I am Kloot
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Flaming Lips Mercury Rev Death in Vegas Trashmonk The Third Eye Foundation The No Smoking Orchestra Sparklehorse And they're all good bands too :) |
heh heh
Jew Boy. Rapscallian... :* ................ : ) I can't compete with "SparkleHorse" I give up! (JEEEZUZ Tophat...Doctor Goatload!!!! Hole Lee!!!!!!!!!! |
Looking through my itunes I've encountered the following which are rather odd to me:
Athenaeum Hey Mercedes Pedro the Lion Tahiti 80 Piebald Minus the Bear Gatsby's American Dream Atreyu all very good bands save tahiti 80 |
Couple of Sydney based pub bands from the 1980's.
Plug Uglies Pork Hunts |
Say Hi To Your Mom
A Farewell to Arms Circle Takes The Square The Number Twelve Looks Like You Between The Buried and Me Sneaker Pimps Mogawi Horse The Band Spoon |
The Circle Jerks,
Ebenezer Splooge, Tenacious D <3 |
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Oh.. and umm.. Death Cab For Cutie. |
Screaming Headless Torsos
Bowling for Soup Dead Eye Dick Kajagoogoo The Flying Frog Brigade ? and the Mysterians (Yes his name is really "?") Stone Temple Pilots Hoobastank (what the hell is that?) and a band my husband used to be in: Mojo Bobfoot |
Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel
Nurse with Wound Throbbing Gristle Rudimentary Peni The Soft Pink Truth The Revolting Cocks MC 900 Foot Jesus Jackie-O Motherfucker And in the vein of Steely Dan, there's Arab Strap - the best dang glaswegian band named after a... well... you know... ever. |
Oedipus Rex and the Mamma's Boys
Hey There, Hi There, Ho There Velvet Acid Christ Corpus Delecti 616 Abortions What Ever Happened To Mary Lou? The Winter of Our Discontent (a joke emo band spoof my frat bro and I did: W.O.O.D. ) Del Tha Phunkee Homosapien |
Not so much a singular band, but I've always been fond of that fashion of band names being extricated parts of sentences, like Less Than Jake, Minus The Bear...There are others, but I can't remember basically any right now.
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Thrush Hermit
Reggie and the Full Effect Mull Historical Society Her Space Holiday The Decemberists Clem Snide |
Alabama Thunder Pussy
The Mr. T Experience |
Death Cab For Cutie
Skunk Anansie |
There's a local band in my area called Abortion Grenade. They're pretty horrible, but the name is pretty awesome
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mein gott
is all goot |
Q and not U....haha thats hilarious
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Legendary Stardust Cowboy (not a band, a performer, but odd, just the same)
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Glossy Flashpig
Jehovah's Angry Foot |
I think the strangest named band I have on my play list is
Architecture in Helsinki |
Cradle of Filth
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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Old Man's Child Strapping Young Lad |
REO Speedwagon
Ear Wacks Alien Ant Farm Dildo Warheads The Sound of Animals Fighting Frou Frou Chumbawumba Crash Test Dummies |
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I completely agree with you. When people find that band no one has ever heard of that plays decent music, it's such a grand discovery. Sometimes, I find people who like to show this off in conversation: "Have you ever heard of _______? No? You should listen to them, they're soooo good." my list includes: Architecture and Helsinky I am the World Trade Center (made BEFORE 9/11, of course) |
hmm, let me go thru my winamp library and see what I can find
1000 homo dj's Bullring Brummies (both off of the black sabbath tribute album) Cake Death Cab for Cutie Del the Funky Homosapien The Dismemberment Plan Dying Fetus Eagles of Death Metal Eels Fairyland Flaming Lips Modest Mouse Neutral Milk Hotel Nuclear Rabbit Prong Psychostick Sausage Smashing Pumpkins Spineshank Stuck Mojo Three Mile Pilot Ugly Casanova lots of those have already been listed before, but they're all pretty strange |
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